Unauthenticated Package Execution Vulnerability in unattended-upgrades

CVE-2015-1330 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

unattended-upgrades before 0.86.1 does not properly authenticate packages when the (1) force-confold or (2) force-confnew dpkg options are enabled in the DPkg::Options::* apt configuration, which allows remote man-in-the-middle attackers to upload and execute arbitrary packages via unspecified vectors.

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